Tuesday, January 11, 2011

I really have been playing the piano . . .

. . . honest! I do my hour or so every day without fail.

I just haven't had much to write, or not anything coherent.

I made a recording of the Bach prelude and fugue in D minor last night, but I'm having technical difficulties with the digital recorder -- my recordings are clipping and sound horrible. So I need to figure out what I'm doing wrong. I will post a recording as soon as I can get something acceptable.

I'm also forging ahead on the Beethoven; the second and third movements are mostly memorized, though still rough, and I'm trying to divide and conquer the fourth movement. There is one passage that has been giving me a lot of trouble. If I can find the time, I will scan it in and explain, but not tonight . . .

There is no required cello playing on the near horizon, so the cello is getting another rest for now.

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Well-Tempered Clavier Project

I am on a quest to learn all 48 sets of preludes and fugues in Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, "learning" including memorizing. I thought it might be interesting to collect all of my Bach efforts in one place; see the list below. Clicking on the link will open the recording so you can listen to it.

The recordings are in reverse chronological order (oldest last). The earliest was recorded in 2006.

I am NOT implying that these are definitive interpretations! Rather, this is meant to document my development as an amateur pianist.

I have actually learned these others as well but never tried recording them; maybe someday I will go back and resurrect them:

WTC II/20 in A minor
WTC I/21 in B flat major
WTC I/1 in C major
WTC I/2 in C minor